 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 796 pages
...or they cannot be recovered. P04] '-Mr. Chitty says: "Damages are either general or special. General damages are such as the law implies, or presumes to...either superadded to general damages arising from au act injurious in itself, as when some particular damage arises from the uttering of slanderous words... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 942 pages
...Mr. Chitty (Civil Pleadings, 385, 386): " General damages," he says, " are such as the law implies to have accrued from the wrong complained of; special...such as really took place and are not implied by law. It does not appear necessary to state the former description of damages in the declaration, because... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 678 pages
...quotes, with approval, from Mr. Chitty, the following: " Damages are either general or special. General damages are such as the law implies or presumes to...arises from the uttering of slanderous words actionable jn themselves, or are such as arise from an act indifferent and not actionable in itseif, but injurious... | |
 | Charles Daniel Drake - Attachment and garnishment - 1891 - 862 pages
...damages, but must be specially averred. Said the court: "Damages are either sreneral or special. General damages are such as the law implies or presumes to...as really took place, and are not implied by law. But when the law does not necessarily imply that the plaintiff sustained damage by the act complained... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1150 pages
...Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 467. In Chitty on Pleading, vol. 1, p. 428, general damages are defined as " such as the law implies or presumes to have accrued from the wrong complained or ; special damages are such as really took place and are not implied by law." In 2nd Greenleaf on... | |
 | Albert Poole Jacobs, Henry Allen Chaney - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 912 pages
...68; 14 M. 84; 16 M. 447; IT M. 488; 23 M. 800; 25 M. 45; ZT M. 471; 88 M. 348; 38 M. 10. 18. General damages are such as the law implies or presumes to...of. Special damages are such as really took place, but are not implied by law : Bateman v. Blake, 81 M. 227 (45 NW 831). 19. Words spoken or written injurious... | |
 | Benjamin Jonson Shipman - Pleading - 1895 - 654 pages
...particularity.17 Such damages are what really took place, though not implied by law, and are cither superadded to general damages arising from an act injurious in itself, as when some particular loss results from the utterance of slanderous words actionable in themselves,... | |
 | William Benjamin Hale - Damages - 1896 - 516 pages
...compensation therefor cannot be recovered. Mr. Chitty says: "Damages are either general or special. General damages are such as the law implies or presumes to....damages arising from an act injurious in itself, — as when some particular damage arises from the uttering of slanderous words actionable in themselves,... | |
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Damages are either general or special. (lene ral damages are such as the law implies, or presumes to have accrued from the wrong complained of. 
